Election 2026: blue wave aided by red undertow

Like soft laps on a sandy beach, election night began quietly. 7 p.m., CNN analysts are sifting early-reporting in Indiana and Kentucky congressional districts, looking for signs that might foreshadow voting trends. None mentioned that, hours before, the non-voting delegate seat from Guam has peacefully flipped from Red to Blue. 7:30 p.m. The gravitational pull …

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Books for giving, for savoring

FICTION Homeland Elegies, this year’s novel by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Ayad Akhtar, is a stunning book about what it means to be Muslim - in America and in the author’s father’s home country of Pakistan. It is so autobiographical it's easy to forget that it is fiction.  The thread among the stories is the …

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